Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Sample projects include company valuation, workshop development, competitive analysis, financial projections, go-to-market plans, performance measurement, and pricing. SpareHire is an online work marketplace for finance and consulting projects.” Some are fixed price, some by the hour. Sounds intimidating. More investigation required.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Legacy systems are outdated computer systems, software applications, and technologies designed to perform specific tasks in a specific way. With less hardware and software baggage and a more modern IT architecture, established companies can simplify their processes and IT environment and sharply improve their performance.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Major revenue sources The major revenue sources for businesses are Revenue from selling goods Revenue from selling services Revenue from licensing (brands or software) Revenue from financial transactions, e.g. interest. Profit = sales - all cost (incl. This means: As soon as your cashflow allows it, pay yourself a fair market value.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 21, 2014

For those unfamiliar with the term “behavioral economics”, I generally describe behavioral economics as a combination of psychology and a traditional science like economics or finance. For example, how well does a software application work from a behavioral perspective in terms of getting people to take action?

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

To be honest, I am not sure if there is a name for the type of chart I describe below, but I call it a “frontier chart” (which is derived from investment portfolio theory from finance). In contrast, projects on the right side might have higher risks but also higher, expected returns.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement. For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. Market trends? The bottom line?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. Business development consultants enable companies to reach their full potential and rescue companies that are struggling to survive. Being able to implement a business development plan is important.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

A source of irritation for many interviewers is when the candidate says, " We faced a $10 million drop in sales, and we fixed this by landing three new clients for $3.3 Did you find and close all $10 million in sales? Did you just show up at the sales meeting? Did you cheer the sales team on from the sidelines?

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. They support you in making fundamental decisions regarding your product, your service, your pricing or your target market. Marketing Consultants Many marketing agencies call themselves consultants these days.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. What is ERP Software? ERP is a type of software system that helps organizations automate and manage core business processes for optimal performance. Ensure business agility.

Software 52

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The market. The first area consultants typically analyze in M&A cases is the market. This is extremely important because a big part of the success or failure of the acquisition will depend on broader market dynamics. How big is the market? How profitable is the market? How heavily regulated is the market?

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 8, 2020

Most of my client work over the past decade has been centered around helping software companies scale up to become bigger companies. My work helps clients create surges in market demand and then adapt to sell to and service those new customers. This is the topic of my book Extreme Revenue Growth.).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services. When software is ubiquitous, agile needs to be likewise. Marketing and communications (79 percent). Sales (78 percent). HR, finance, and administration (78 percent).

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.

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Consultant Ninja

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Youll hear more about this over the month or two, as November/December closed sales are published as being way down. Source: NWMLS: Tax Credit Boosts November Closed Sales as Pending Sales Drop Through the Floor. Source: NWMLS: Tax Credit Boosts November Closed Sales as Pending Sales Drop Through the Floor.

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 16, 2017

Now, the on-demand executive phenomenon has truly spread across the world and according to American consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the UK market for on-demand executives is one of the world’s most developed, accounting for $1.8 On-demand CEOs are not exclusive to American business, though. billion in revenue in 2009.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. Booz has experience across a broad range of industries including high technology, finance, and consumer products. Booz & Company. Website: booz.com. Founded in Chicago in 1914 by Edwin G. The Birchman Group.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 83

Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2015

In the pursuit of growth, should a company enter a new market, develop a new product, launch a start-up, form a joint venture, or acquire a competitor? It opted to make the IBM PC an “open architecture” product, publishing technical guides to the circuit designs and software source code. The story of the IBM PC is a cautionary tale.

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Survey Industry Company Productivity 60

MishTalk

JULY 16, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Jewel Food Store Amazing Software Glitch; Purposeful Action or Programmer Stupidity? Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 75

Free Agent CFO

MAY 10, 2018

I cannot deny it, but I’d prefer to be the guy that people say, “Man, he’s super creative for a finance geek.” You read far too many business and finance books (ouch!). You are completely unresponsive to issues beyond the discipline of finance. I don’t like that brand.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

On February 8th, 2001, KPMG Consulting, LLC, went public on the NASDAQ starting at $18 per share under the ticker “KCIN” Their IPO was 6 months delayed due to the quickly declining high-tech consulting services market. was still using the old software from KPMG to handle all of their accounting and human resource functions.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 10, 2019

Come join 900+ of your fellow marketers for 2 days of the most impactful offering of digital marketing tactics, strategies, best practices, and insights from the top minds in the marketing world: [link]. Sponsor, Affiliate, Partner Program. Looking to make New England CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, CHROs etc.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I think it’s similar to the Big Ball of Mud antipattern in software. If you review the product organization image (at the top of this post), you’ll see that a product organization has its own Customer Support, Sales, HR, Finance, Marketing functions in the product line. That looks like a big deal, right?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And unlike with the internet, where latecomers often bested those who were first to market, the companies that get started immediately with machine intelligence could enjoy a lasting advantage. Rethink How You Build Software. Think of software as the combination of code, data, and a model. Find Entirely New Sources of Data.

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Software Tools Data Transportation 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. I’ve spent the last seven years building the customer success function at HubSpot.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. Birchman provides six core services: Value Management, Business Change, Software Development, Enterprise Applications, IT Advisory, and Business Advisory. The Birchman Group. Website: thebirchmangroup.com.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 76

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. If someone works in industry for three years in marketing, they have three years of experience in marketing. VP of marketing for Ghiradelli Chocolates (after working in brand management at Clorox). * Any thoughts?

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Case Interview McKinsey 40

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2020

If you’re interested in marketing, email a marketing manager or ask your manager for an introduction. Whether you’re in consulting, strategy, finance, software engineering, sales, or any other role, it is helpful to know what is happening in your company or industry. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. Weighing the three questions below can help business leaders prepare for this shift. How Do We Need to Adapt Our Current Offerings?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. That was the challenge.

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Enterprise Software Data Engineering 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. The risk is growing.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. In the span of 9 years, the firm acquired more than 16 consulting companies in 5 different markets, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States and Latin America.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. Meanwhile, Starbucks, CVS Health, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase joined with more than a dozen other large U.S.

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Progressus

APRIL 26, 2024

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